Peter Mathews (Dublin South, Independent) | Oireachtas source

The connections have to be made otherwise the right sort of apartments will not be built. The Minister of State will be doing meaningless stuff disconnected from the reality of where we stand. If one lines up all the materials for a programme or strategy and gets the measurements right, whether of money, materials, designs, drawing, strategies, timing or calendars, one will succeed. I have experience of this in the 1980s, which was a bad time to be building and developing. We did it because we made physical sense of it with people who had experience - builders, developers, architects and quantity surveyors. One should examine and line up one's ingredients and do it for the right reasons which means thinking long term and including storage, playground areas, access and bicycle spaces. All of these things are needed. One needs window outlets because people will live there through their lifecycle, from their single days through marriage or partnership and family. It can be done.

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